On the 24th of November of 2008, Elie came to LAU after being graduated for almost a year and a half. We all thought that he's coming for a technical presentation about his famous Woopra. But once we gathered ourselves, CSC, COE, ELE and some Graphic Design students, along with the faculty of Maths and Computer Science division and the dean of The School of Arts and Sciences, Elie began his presentation. It was amazing and fast although he covered the most important features of Woopra and how he got the idea to do it. It is never useless to attend that presentation and especially after that Elie Khoury began to chat with the audience about what they should do. He was motivating them indeed. He wanted to see all the CSC and COE students working with websites and blogs. He even offered to host for those who cannot host servers. And that is all for motivating the students to start their road to success.

If worked well, students can go very BIG just like Elie and have their own successful products maybe similar to what Woopra did.




Woopra is a web analytics service offered by iFusion Labs LLC that generates live detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. The service is provided in real-time using a desktop application. Woopra was developed by Elie Khoury and Jad Younan of Lebanon. The two met after winning a computer science national award at university. Statistics junkies frustrated with current web statistics packages, they decided to create their own stats program, breaking all the rules for current online web analytics programs. There are three parts to Woopra: Web and Desktop. Registered Woopra members can monitor their blog stats on the Woopra Member Panel on the Woopra site. Members can also track live statistics on their computers with the Woopra Desktop Client installed and linked to their website through a JavaScript. A WordPress Plugin and other blogging and web platform extensions, add-ons, and plugins are also available to bring Woopra analytics to the member's web interface such as the Woopra WordPress Plugin which allows viewing web analytics on their WordPress Administration Panel. With the upcoming release of the Woopra API, members will be able to develop a wide range of third party applications to enhance Woopra's statistics with their websites and blogs.from:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoopraLorelle, one of the very famous bloggers, says:"I’m rarely totally and completely blown away by anything, and yesterday at WordCamp Dallas, John Pozadzides blew the whole crowd away with his new blog statistics program, Woopra."John Pozadzides being the author of the popular One Man’s Blog, and an experienced web user who is now the CEO of the iFusion Labs LLC.Myo Kyaw Htun says: "I was long time back that I get a chance to use Woopra but I did not use it since I was already using Google Analytics and reinvigorate for my site. I started testing it since last week and impressed it. Woopra, a site analytics tool got good review as soon as it was released as private beta. Woopra does everything like site analytics tools do but it has additional features that you can’t find in other analytics tools."Cali Lewis, a blogger who attended the WordCamp in Dallas, said in an interview: "Web site stats might be interesting to those of us who have Web sites, but Woopra makes stats addictive and quite frankly, entertaining. It’s sticky, and if you own a Web site, you’re going to want to have it running on a screen, the same way a day trader keeps a stock ticker and CNBC running non-stop."and i agree with Cali. i have a few websites that don't even have a domain name, i'm running Woopra to do their analytics :D and got addicted already. although they have been published not more than a month.

so what Elie asked for is to be motivated and start your own little website/blog, put some adds on it and get some cash. who knows? maybe you will end up like Elie one day; someone who had a vision, got to it with his own effort and became The Entrepreneur he always wanted to be.
Cheers